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Handbook of business and climate change, edited by Anant K. Sundaram, Robert G. Hansen

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Handbook of business and climate change

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edited by Anant K. Sundaram, Robert G. Hansen

Elgar handbooks in energy, the environment and climate change

Summarizing the current state of knowledge on the links between business and climate change, this timely Handbook analyzes how businesses contribute to and are affected by climate change, looking closely at their centrality in developing and deploying solutions to address this problem. Contributions from a global collection of scholars and practitioners explore a broad range of key industries’ impacts and responses to climate change, examining corporate strategy and leadership in the climate economy, functional perspectives and corporate practice, and climate finance. Chapters use diverse case studies to analyze climate-related business issues, including supply chain management, decarbonization, consumer decision-making, and climate-related financial investments. The Handbook delves deeper into how businesses perceive the issue of climate change, how they are affected by and engage with it, as well as the impact they have and what this impact costs. Forward-thinking, it concludes with reflections from the contributors on what the future holds for businesses and climate change. Covering matters relating to finance, economics, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership, and communications, this interdisciplinary Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars in business management, sustainability, and environmental studies, as well as to sustainability officers (and their staff) in corporations. Addressing, as it does, a wide range of climate-related issues from the corporate standpoint, it will also prove to be a useful resource for policymakers concerned with enabling solutions to climate change. --, Provided by publisher

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Business and Climate Change 1 Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen PART I THE BUSINESS CASE FOR CLIMATE CONCERNS 2 Business and climate change 8 Anant K. Sundaram 3 The end of combustion? 38 David Hone PART II KEY INDUSTRIES: IMPACT AND RESPONSE 4 Banks and climate change risk 58 Edwin Anderson, Ilya Khaykin, Alban Pyanet and Til Schuermann 5 The patchwork quilt: business complexities of decarbonizing the electric sector 89 Scott G. Fisher, Bruce A. Phillips and Mark W. Scovic 6 Implications of fully decarbonizing the electric industry for business: Icarus or Daedalus? 120 Bruce A. Phillips, Scott G. Fisher and Mark W. Scovic 7 Climate change and the insurance industry – risks and opportunities for transitioning to a resilient low carbon economy 145 Maryam Golnaraghi 8 Climate change and aviation 187 Vincent Etchebehere 9 Leaders and laggards: how have oil and gas companies responded to the energy transition? 208 Julia Hartmann, Andrew Inkpen and Kannan Ramaswamy PART III CORPORATE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP IN THE CLIMATE ECONOMY 10 Climate change communication strategies 231 Paul Argenti, Posie Holmes and Marloes Smittenaar 11 Corporate strategy and climate change: a nonmarket approach to environmental advantage 251 Thomas C. Lawton and Carl J. Kock 12 Owens Corning: environmental footprint reduction as the foundation for building a net-positive future 271 Frank O’Brien-Bernini and Amanda Meehan 13 Climate preparedness for business resilience 294 Janet Peace and Kristiane Huber PART IV FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND CORPORATE PRACTICE 14 The equity value relevance of carbon emissions 326 Peter M. Clarkson, Jody Grewal and Gordon D. Richardson 15 Getting to 2050: transparency for setting and reaching supply chain climate goals 340 Suzanne Greene and Alexis Bateman 16 Commodity supply chain management and climate change: a case study of the palm oil industry 359 Yinjin Lee and Alexis Bateman 17 Carbon pricing 379 Robert G. Hansen 18 Shifting consumers’ decisions towards climate-friendly behavior 405 Rishad Habib and Katherine White PART V CLIMATE FINANCE 19 Mainstreaming climate action in public and private investments: mobilizing finance towards sustainable investments through the bond markets 430 Heike Reichelt, David P. Allen and Scott M. Cantor 20 Green bonds: investor, issuer and climate perspectives 458 Christa Clapp, Keith Lee and Anouk Brisebois 21 Cost of capital and climate risks 480 Gianfranco Gianfrate, Dirk Schoenmaker and Saara Wasama 22 ESG investing 503 Anant K. Sundaram PART VI THE FUTURE 23 Reflections on the future 526 Arranged and edited by Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen